Not exactly on topic, but my sis-in-law thought her neighbors were using her wi-fi and she asked me to lock it down. Logged onto her laptop, got into the router, changed the name, locked it up, and checked that I could still connect to it.

I could connect, but every couple of minutes it would lose the connection. So I asked her where it was so I could check it. It turns out HER router was unplugged, she'd been using her neighbor's wifi, and I'd just locked them out. They must have been power cycling it to fix the connection. So I set it back how I found it and locked hers down.

I would prefer not to have people even screwing with my 4G cellular access point, so I named the wireless network PASSWORD_SNIFFER. I figure nobody's going to try connecting to that. Maybe I'm wrong, who knows.

Miss Stein:2311 N. Los Robles Ave. is the address of the apartment building that is home to Sheldon Cooper, Leonard Hofstadter, and Penny Nolastname of The Big Bang Theory. In real life it doesn't exist; N. Los Robles ends at the 2100 block.

Soon I'll be getting a new computer and will be setting up my first wi-fi network at home, and I'm already agonizing over what to name it. The pop culture choices are nearly endless, but I figure things like Skynet and HAL_9000 have probably been done to death by now. I also figured anything Star Trek or Star Wars related would be old hat, but judging from this thread, maybe not.

My father and I are huge P.G. Wodehouse fans. One year for his birthday I got him the Jeeves & Wooster box set. We just vegged in front of his new TV and we could not have been happier. There is nothing like seeing the Drones have a rugby scrum indoors.

To the original topic: my cell's wifi is "billionaire pr0n", which no longer seems as smart after reading this list. I was eating brunch at the foot of the Hollywood Hills (Pinches on the Strip, not the dysfunctional one in Culver City) and assuming that one of the wealthy people in the hillside mansions was peeping on us with our normal lives. There would be a guy in front of his telescope, furiously cranking and muttering, "he's eating eggs with salsa! Oh god yeah, yeah, YEAH, that's great... he wipes his mouth with... ungh... a paper napkin... yeah, gotta film this..."

/rule 34 corollary: something you never think about doing is someone else's fetish//unable to choose a stylus at the computer store? Oh yeah...

Lincey:CSB time. Somehow my router reset itself, and in the 10 minutes it was open, a neighbor connected to the router. Checked the DHCP clients table, noticed there was a new computer named "Jenna" on my network. Changed my SSID to "Jenna is a whore" . . . . Left it that way for about 8 months.

Lol, I remember when my neighbor's router was down for a while and they requested access to mine until they got their fixed. After one day of use I randomly kept kicking them out and told them my internet was acting up as well. They fixed their router real fast after that.

CSB time. Somehow my router reset itself, and in the 10 minutes it was open, a neighbor connected to the router. Checked the DHCP clients table, noticed there was a new computer named "Jenna" on my network. Changed my SSID to "Jenna is a whore" . . . . Left it that way for about 8 months.

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There's one nearby called LCARS, and while I appreciated the reference it isn't very clever. If there's someone nearby (or you have a neighbour who wants in on the joke) you name one of yours FBI mobile surveillance and the other does Al Qaeda spy network. I've seen a ton of funny ones over the years and I know I'm forgetting a lot of really good ones.

Ours is the initials of my bio dad, who is supposedly an IT expert. How the hell you become an IT expert without knowing memes is beyond me. The only remotely interesting one in the vicinity is 'badassmofos'.

I set up "Sailing in the seas of Wifi" a while back, I figured only my mates would get a little chuckle out of it. A few months later, a neighbour changed his to "Jerry was a Wifi Driver". Had a few beers with the guy since.

The owner of our company was in town last year and needed to connect to the office wifi; she said, "Um, is this our wifi?" In addition to ours and some others that obviously belonged to building tenants was "Pussy Wagon," so thanks, Pussy Wagon people, for making me have that special moment with the boss.